You have, Sir, decreed that blacks shall enjoy the same civil rights as whites,--in other words, that with regard to civil rights there shall be no oligarchy, aristocracy, caste, or monopoly, but that all shall be equal before the law, without distinction of color.
Sumner proclaims that civil rights must be equal for all, regardless of color, as a fundamental principle.
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